I read a very interesting article by Ben Pugsley which looked at the scoring percentage and shooting efficiency of the top ten strikers in the Premier League this season. I thought I’d use the shot placement data from EPLIndex to see if it could explain a couple of points in the article, as well as digging into the improved goal [...]

Editor: As promised on our previous article about the Premier League’s Most Error Prone Defender’s – please find below Andrew Beasley’s analysis of Liverpool’s defensive errors. As Liverpool continue to struggle to make a push towards the top four, it’s very tempting to blame things that are beyond their control. The Reds have only been [...]

On Wednesday, Liverpool completed the signing of 23 year old England international Daniel Sturridge for £12m. I’ve been taking a look at his stats (via EPLIndex and Whoscored) to see if this is likely to be money well spent. In the Premier League in 2011/12, Sturridge: Scored eleven goals, all from open play, which was [...]

In a recent interview on Uruguayan television, Luis Suárez revealed the anguish he suffered after being accused of racially abusing Patrice Evra in October 2011: “It was so hard what happened to me. I don’t show my emotions in the field, you know, but outside I do it ­I cried a lot with all the [...]

I read in this piece on The Tomkins Times that Pepe Reina saved 69% of the shots he faced in the Premier League this season, which happened to be the average percentage figure for all the ‘keepers who made at least ten appearances in 2011/12. Pepe Reina? An average goalkeeper? Whilst that initially seemed surprising [...]

It’s safe to say that Luis Suárez certainly had an ‘interesting’ 2011/12. After starting it by becoming a Copa America champion, as the domestic season unfolded he saw controversy follow him around, as it has continued to since his goal-line handball in the quarter-final of the World Cup in 2010. As well as the heavily [...]

When considering how Liverpool have struggled in the last two months following their last gasp defeat to Arsenal at Anfield, a look at the statistics makes one thing very clear: their opponents have been much more effective in front of goal recently. The following graph shows how many shots per game (SPG) both Liverpool and [...]

After their recent defeat to Arsenal, most Kopites agreed that whilst Liverpool had played reasonably well (if in a slightly clueless fashion at times), it was their finishing that had stopped them from claiming all three points. With the Reds now ten points behind the much-coveted 4th place, it is surely time to start thinking [...]